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bastille

noun as in fortress

Strong matches

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“If we have a fourth one, Jerusalem will become a new bastille.”

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Reading some of the coverage, you’d think someone was storming the bastille.

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“There are more prisoners in my bastille, my jail, and higher costs for arrests.”

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Chains cannot bind that down; bastilles cannot shut it in; and every attempt to crush it is but an effort of tyranny both impotent and cruel.

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"And he is now incarcerated in your bastille."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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